The Book Club blog has collected together more information than you'd ever want to know about the Belle de Jour blog, the supposed online diary of a London call girl that recently was published as a book. About a year ago there was a lot of speculation that Belle de Jour was really Sarah Champion, a 33-year-old music journalist. Now the Book Club blog is speculating that Belle is really a writer named Lisa Hilton.

Reminds me of Natasha Merritt (sp?), the internet web-log writer - from just before they were called blogs, back when the hot buzzword was 'webcam' - who transitioned into the world of publishing, albeit with a book of rude photographs. Dunno what she does now. Even given the economics of producing a full-colour book of photographs, Taschen probably made more money from her pictures than Weidenfeld & Nicolson will make from Ms Jour's words, which is the key disadvantage of being anonymous; people prefer to look at pictures than to read words.

Posted by Ashley Pomeroy on Tue Mar 08, 2005 at 09:45 AM

Well, settle on someone, I don't care as long as she's hot.

Posted by brian on Tue Mar 08, 2005 at 11:20 AM

Looks rather conclusive. But has she denied it? Or even been asked?
Personally I'd always thought it was a middle-aged Oxbridge type, like Stephen Fry or Boris "de" Johnson. Perhaps they know her, via Rowan Pelling.
I suspect there is still more to this story...

Posted by Martin in London on Wed Mar 09, 2005 at 03:09 AM
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